Indian travelling entertainers with animals. Gouache painting.
- Date:
- [1815?]
- Reference:
- 728564i
- Part of:
- Indian practitioners of trades, crafts, and professions. Gouache paintings, 18--.
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Description
Three people: left to right; a drummer, a man with a snake around his neck and a black ram; a woman carrying wicker baskets and sacks on a panier
Publication/Creation
[1815?]
Physical description
1 painting : gouache, with indian ink and gold ; image 20.7 x approximately 25 cm
Lettering
Pellevan or mountebank. Worship Mahomet in general. Live by exhibiting tygers, bears, snakes &c., wives go about with them.
Creator/production credits
Attributed to a painter from Tanjore (Thanjavur)
Reference
Wellcome Collection 728564i
Type/Technique
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Where to find it
volume II
Location Status Access Closed stores